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Abercrombie
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A
look at the Abercrombie & Fitch space and its models.
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Two
weeks ago, Abercrombie & Fitch
opened their must anticipated flagship store at 720
Fifth Avenue on the corner of 56th Street with a big crowded party
of retail revelers. The four-level
27,000 square foot retail space is the company’s largest
store to date.
Because of its modern image it is not widely known that A&F
started in 1892,
with
a small store and factory in downtown New York City and later moved to a more
fashionable midtown address on Madison Avenue right next to Brooks Brothers.
The
early shop was dedicated to selling only the highest quality camping, fishing
and hunting gear with a distinguished clientele of professional hunters and explorers
including Theodore Roosevelt, Admiral Perry, Ernest Hemingway, Presidents
Hoover, Eisenhower, Taft, Harding, and Kennedy.
The flagship designed in collaboration with Annabelle Selldorf [Selldorf Architects
LLC] is the first of four flagship stores to open within the end of 2006.
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Mike
Jeffries and Bruce Weber
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Sandra,
Lei, and Fitore
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Cortni
Tuck
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Allison
Vizaccelli and David Ortiz
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Annabel
Tollman and Erica Blumenthal
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Alexa
Havins and Justin Bruening
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Marty
Richards
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Hamish
Bowles
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Fabian
and Martina Basabe open up their own shop
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Dorothy
Kakaris and Eric Villency
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Jessica
Stakley
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Erica
Hardy
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Stephen
Knoll and Patrick McDonald
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Jeannine
and Linda
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Bob
Haboldt, Daniel Romualdez, Annabel Seldorf,
Mike Jeffries, and friend
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Dani
Stahl
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Donna
Janelle
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Daniel
Motta and Luigi Tadini
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Dan
Sullivan and Ed Limato
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Fabian
Basabe, Marissa Bua, Adam Lippes, and Robert Verde
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Heather
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Joanne
Agoglia, Steve Pressler, and Patricia Revellese
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Jessica
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Marcus
Teo, Paul Wilmot, and Jennifer Glenn
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weeks ago at Steinway Hall on West 57th Street between
6th and 7th Avenues, OPUS, the Contemporary Patrons of the Chamber
Music
Society of Lincoln Center held a cocktail reception, hosted by the
Founders — Lisa and Saar Banin, Michael Evans, Andrew
Borrok, Justin Hays Green, Robert Deutsch, Lise Powers, and Bill
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Borromeo
String Quartet and Opus Founders
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was a special performance by Jonathan Biss, pianist,
and the Borromeo String Quartet of Schumann's Piano Quintet in
E-Flat Major, Op. 44. |
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Justin
Green, Mark Stewart, and Brian Blum
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Kate
Shelter and David Gruning
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Lise
Powers with her parents
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Sendra
Schwartz, Henry Schwartz, and Wu Han
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Marianna
Olszewski, Bobette Cohn, and Christina Wood
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Wu
Han and Richard Miller
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L.
to r.: Bernard Paul, Lise Powers, and Mrs. Bernard
Paul; Laurel Kenner and Norma Hurlbert.
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Christina
and Ned Wood
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Jim
Brodsky and Phil McCarthy
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Jeanne
Lunin and James Goldschmidt
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William
Cummings and Bert Heiberg
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Maria
Risso and Dani Lachowicz
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Jim
and Stephanie Hunt
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Mr.
and Mrs. James McGovern
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Lisa
Banin with a friend
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L.
to r.: Opus Founders Lise Powers, Justin Green, Marie
Samuels, Andrew Borrok, and Lisa and Saar Banin; Saar
Banin and Robert Deutsch.
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| Photographs
by Michael Loccisano/David Pomponio & Rob Rich/516-676-3939 (Abercrombie). |
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